With Gemini Live, you can have a natural, free-flowing conversation with Gemini. You can even interrupt it like when you want to add more details or change the topic of the conversation. With Gemini Live, you can:

• Talk back and forth: Talk to Gemini without typing, and Gemini will respond back verbally.
• Brainstorm ideas out loud: Ask for a gift idea, to plan an event, or to make a business plan.
• Explore: Uncover more details about topics that interest you.
• Practice aloud: Rehearse for important moments in a more natural and conversational way.

• An Android phone or tablet.
• The Gemini mobile app, or Gemini as your mobile assistant.
  • For now, Gemini Live isn’t available in the Gemini web app or Gemini in Google messages.
• A personal Google account that you manage on your own or a work or school Google account with access to Gemini Apps.
• The latest version of the Google App. Learn how to update apps on Android. 
• Be 18 or over.

Important:

• The Gemini mobile app doesn’t currently support Farsi. Learn more about Gemini mobile app availability.
• For now, Gems can't be used with Gemini Live.

• Respect others’ privacy and ask permission before recording or including them in a Live chat.
• Learn how Google works with Gemini Live data.

• I’m about to interview my first big guest for a podcast, and want to make sure I don’t mess up. Any last minute tips?
• So my friend is really tough to shop for. Can you help me think of a gift?
• What’s the best way to kickstart my day and feel super productive? I’ve got a big meeting coming up and want to be on top of my game.

Mute a Live chat to turn off your microphone but allow Gemini to keep speaking. This keeps your Live session active, letting you resume the conversation without losing context. This differs from ending a chat, which closes the session and provides a transcript.

Tip: When your Live chat is muted, your device’s microphone is muted but your video or screen continues to be shared.

When your camera automatically turns off

Important: To share your screen, you must turn on notifications for Gemini Live on your device.

You can share and get help with what’s on your device’s screen. When you share your screen, your full screen is shared with Gemini.

Share your screen

Stop sharing your screen

When screen sharing automatically stops

When you’re sharing your screen, if Live is put on hold or you lock your screen, screen sharing automatically stops. Screen sharing doesn’t automatically resume when you continue your Live chat or unlock your screen. To resume it, you need to share your screen again.

If you’re signed in to a personal Google Account

If the app you ask Gemini to use isn't connected, you will need to connect the app in your Connected Apps settings. Learn how to connect or disconnect an app.

After you connect the app, open Gemini Live and repeat your prompt.

If you’re signed in to a work or school Google Account

To use supported apps in your Live chats, the apps must first be enabled by your account’s Workspace administrator. Learn more about using apps with a work or school account.

• If Gemini Live is open on your screen: Tap Undo or ask Gemini to undo the action.
• If Gemini Live is on in the background: For now, you can’t undo an action. If you need to change something, you can edit the event or action in the app.
• For now, you can’t undo an action with Samsung apps. You can still edit the event or action in the app.

Important: To talk to Gemini in the background, you must turn on notifications for Gemini Live on your device.

Important: You can’t start Gemini Live on a locked screen. You need to unlock your phone to start it.

If Gemini on lock screen is on, you can continue your Live chat after you lock your phone. If Gemini on lock screen is off, when you lock your phone, Live is put on hold. Learn how to turn on Gemini on lock screen.

Tip: If your chat is put on hold or ends while your phone is locked, you’ll need to unlock your phone to continue the Live chat.

Tip: If you turn off interrupt Live responses, you can still interrupt Gemini by tapping the screen.

To use Gemini Live in the background or while your device is locked, Live with Gemini notifications must be on.

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open your device’s Settings app.
2. Tap Notifications App notifications Google.
3. Turn on All Google Notifications if it’s off.
4. Turn on Live with Gemini if it’s off.

You can turn on captions for your Gemini Live conversations. If you turn on captions, all of your Gemini Live conversations will have captions until you turn the setting off.

Change caption size and style